New Titles Spring/Summer 2010
Cookery
Apocalypse Chow - $6.00
Jon & Robin Robertson. How to eat well when the power goes out. While this is something that we normally deal with at every event, this book nonetheless has many good recipes (vegetarian) and good advice about preparation for powerlessness whether at home or at events. Includes an excellent list of staples and stock boxes, food safety during emergencies, resources directory. Pb, 245pp.
Cheese and Cheese-Making - $12.95
James Long & John Benson. This 1896 work provides instruction on the manufacture of specific cheeses. Paper, 164pp. Applewood Books
Cooking With Herbs and Spices - $13.00
Andi Clevely et alia. The ultimate guide to identifying and using herbs and spices, complete with fascinating historical information, facts on growing herbs, and how to use herbs and spices in the kitchen. Full color photographic identification guides to the world’s herbs and spices. Over 200 classic recipes, each with step-by-step instructions and pictures of finished dish. Spice mixtures, pastes, aromatic oils and vinegars, and a variety of preserves and drinks. A-Z listing of herbs, spice index. Listing by formal botanical names is offset by an excellent index using common names. HC, dw, 512pp, color photos throughout. JG Press
Food Presentation Secrets: Styling Techniques of Professionals - $29.95
Cara Hobday & Jo Denbury. A practical guide to adding that professional flourish to any dish! Provides cooking school instructions, tips, and recipes for more than 100 sweet and savory garnishing ideas. Step-by-step illustrations show how to assemble the garnishes, which are graded by difficulty. Hardcover, concealed wire bound, 176pp, full color photos throughout. Glossary, index, resources. Firefly Books.
Forgotten Skills of Cooking - $40
Darina Allen. Based on the popular course at the author’s Ballymaloe Cookery School, this timely book reveals the lost arts of making butter & yogurt, keeping hens, home-curing & smoking bacon, and even foraging in the wild. Rediscover childhood favorites such as figgy toffee pudding and freshly baked scones. Darina even offers tips for using up leftovers in delicious ways. Essential reading for urban and rural dwellers alike, this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cooking skills. Hardcover, 600pp, index, resources, color photos throughout. Kyle Books
Hungarian Specialties Cookery Book - $9.95
Nelly De Sacellary & Helen Fodor. This early Twentieth-Century book aims to acquaint American cooks with Hungarian dishes that can be prepared in their own homes. Paper, 112pp. Applewood Books
Kitchen Knife Skills - $15.00
Marianne Lumb. Techniques for carving, boning, slicing, chopping, dicing, mincing, filleting. Discusses techniques for vegetables & herbs, fruit, meat & poultry, fish & seafood, bread, pastries, & cake. Step-by-step instructions with accompanying photos. Knife selection, safe working practices, knife sharpening and care are also included. HC, 176pp, index, glossary, color photos throughout. Firefly Publications
Costume
The King’s Servants: Men’s Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII - $30
Caroline Johnson. From the producers of The Tudor Tailor comes a new title! Provides a vivid picture of Henry VIII’s early court, using evidence from early warrant and account books in The National Archives. These previously unpublished documents reveal a wealth of fascinating material about expenditures on garments for servants in the king’s household. The book focuses on middle-ranking men between 1485 and 1513. The materials and clothes which they were issued are described and reconstructed. Contains detailed patterns, practical instructions, line drawings and color photos. This is an essential guide to men’s clothing in the Sixteenth Century. Tr pb, 48pp, footnotes & sources. Fat Goose Press.
Medieval Clothing & Textiles, Volume Six - $60.00
Netherton, Owen-Crocker, edited. The most recent volume of this well-respected and useful series contains the following essays: Archeological dress & textiles in Latvia from the 7th to the 13th Century; Weaving words in silk: women & inscribed bands in the Carolingian world; Stitches, sutures & seams: “embroidered’ parchment repairs; Dressing up the nuns: the Lingua Ignota and Hildegard of Bingen’s clothing; Flax & linen in Walter of Bibbesworth’s 13th century French Treatise for English Housewives, London Mercers’ Company, London textual cultures, & John Gower’s Mirour de l’Omme; Fripperers & the used clothing trade in Late Medieval London, Donations from the Body for the Soul: apparel, devotion, & status in late Medieval Strasbourg. Also contains 31 b/w photos & drawings, a listing of new books of interest, and the contents of previous volumes, as well as an index. HC, 225pp.
Medieval Jewellery in Europe 1100-1500 - $30
Marian Campbell. This book draws on the collection at the V&A. Jewelry worn in medieval Europe was important as an indicator of the wearer’s social status and wealth, faith and superstition, allegiances and literacy. This richly illustrated book examines the jewels themselves and contemporary portraits and sculpture to place the jewellery in its cultural context. Hardcover, dj, 112pp, color photos throughout. Index, selected bibliog., list of museums. V&A Publishing
Steampunk Style Jewelry - $24.99
Jean Campbell. Victorian, Fantasy, and mechanical necklaces, bracelets, and earrings . Pairs mechanical found objects with Old World Victorian-style filigree, charms, chains, gems, and beads to create unique pieces that marry romance, technology, and attitude. Projects require only basic jewelry-making techniques. Paper, 144pp, list of suppliers, color photos & diagrams throughout. Creative Publishing
Unveiling the Truth, Volume One - $5.00
Barbara Segal. Hairstyling Tools and easy hair fashions from 600 to 1500. Perfect-bound pb, 50pp, b/w illus. SCA
Unveiling the Truth, Volume Two - $5.00
Barbara Segal. Complex hair fashions before 1500. Perfect-bound pb, 50pp, b/w illus. SCA
Reference
Mary Rose: Your Noblest Shippe -
$90
Peter Marsden, editor. The anatomy of a Tudor warship. Concerned primarily with a detailed description of the ship and how she operated as a functional warship. Evidence is presented for how the ship was designed and built. The ship, her rigging, and a deck by deck description are included. Lavishly illustrated, included reconstructed deck plans. Includes a summary of the ship’s armaments is also provided. Hardcover, slip jacket, 418pp, 287 b/w illus. The Mary Rose Trust
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Medieval Household: Daily Living c. 1150-1450 - $60
Geoff Egan. This book brings together the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artifacts from medieval London homes. These include roofing and other structural items, decorative fixtures and fittings, and assortments of culinary utensils, writing instruments, and toys and weights. Illustrating more than 1,000 items from archeological digs in London, this catalog provides a fascinating account of how metalwork and glassware trends changed during the period. Long unavailable, this new release is a boon to the medieval scholar. Hardcover, 342pp, b/w photos, diagrams and sketches throughout. Extensive bibliog. Boydell Press.
Men of the Mary Rose: Raising the Dead - $42.50
A.J. Stirland. The author uses archeological and skeletal evidence to give insight into the soldiers of the Mary Rose, from their ages and height to their health, diet, and physical condition. He also examines the building, sinking, and raising of the ship, and her historical context, before moving on to an discussion of what the remains of the crew can reveal to us about the fighting men of that period. The book provides an exciting glimpse of Tudor life and the Tudor navy, relating archeological findings to existing documentary evidence. Paper, 184pp, b/w photos & diagrams, index, glossary, bibliog. Sutton Publishing.
The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer - $25.00
David Waines. Battuta, born in 14th century Morocco, was one of the world’s great travelers. He left an account of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond. The indefatigable Battuta brought to vivid life a medieval world rimming with marvel and mystery. He exhibited an omnivorous interest in food & drink, religious differences, and ideas about purity, disease, women, and sex. The author gives a gripping treatment of the life and times of one of history’s most daring, and at the same time most human, adventurers. PB, 240pp, 22 halftones. University of Chicago Press.
Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges - $60.00
Brian Spencer. Long unavailable, this thorough catalogue of finds from London fills a special need. Providing evidence of pilgrimages to shrines both near and far, these items offer pointers to fashion in contemporary jewelry. The secular badges include a wealth of non-religious imagery. Includes nearly 800 items of popular medieval jewelry. Contains a map of shrine locations in both England and Western Europe, descriptions and photos or sketches of items. Especially useful for metalworkers. HC, 349pp, 17p bibliog., supplementary bibliog. Museum of London.
Suburban Knights - $35.00
EF Kitchen. The men and women of the SCA capture a bit of the past glory of the warrior, the power and virtue, for themselves, participating in a variety of rigorous medieval battle simulations. This book is a series of portraits of these 21st-century warriors, in costume and in character as their knightly alter egos. The results are sepia-toned images of these fierce warriors lost in time. 100pp, 59 photos. Power House Books.
New Books I Hope to Have At Pennsic
Costume
Costume of the Maghreb (Berber) circa $25
Dawn Devine & Barry Brown. Covers material from Roman times to the present day. Part one is chronological. Part two covers beauty aids such as henna, headdresses, and specialty dances. Includes some men’s garments. Comb-bound, 150pp, b/w illus throughout. Ibexa Press
Illuminated Manuscripts of Belgium and the Netherlands in the H. Paul Getty Museum - $19.95
Thomas Kren. During the 15th & 16th centuries, the area now known as Belgium and the Netherlands produced one of the greatest flowerings of the art of illumination anywhere in Europe. The region’s colorful, naturalistically painted books were eagerly sought. This collection contains works by the finest , most original artists, made for the most discerning patrons. Pb, 96pp, 85 color illus. Getty
Medieval Painting in Bohemia - $40.00
Jan Royt. Originally published in Czech in 2002, and now available in English, this book assesses the history of painting in Bohemia and Moravia from the late 9th century to 1526. This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone curious about this region. HC, 160pp, 80 color plates. Karolinum Press
Look for these exciting new titles coming
soon!
Cookery
Clear Toy Candy - $14.95 –SEPTEMBER
Nancy Fasset
Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan - $49.95 – OCTOBER
Eric C Rath
Japanese Foodways, Past and Present - $28.00 – NOVEMBER
Eric Rath and Stephanie Assmann, editors
Zwilling/J. A. Henckels Complete Book of Knife Skills -$34.95 - OCTOBER
Jeffrey Elliot & James P DeWan.
Miscellaneous
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World - AUGUST
And Coming
Soon (Fall?Winter?)—
Cookery
Closet of the Eminently
Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt., Opened - $30
Edited by Peter Davidson & Janice Stevenson. A classic of 17th century English writing about food and drink. Many recipes for mead & metheglins, but the culinary material provides a remarkable conspectus of accepted practice among court circles in Restoration England, with extra details supplied from Digby’s European travels. PAPER, 368pp. Prospect Books
Delights From the
Garden of Eden (2nd edition) - $50
Nawal Nasrallah. A cookbook and history of the Iraqi Cuisine. A unique book that displays the diversity of the region’s traditional culinary practices. Contains more than 400 recipes, all tested & easy to follow. Includes a well-researched chapter on the history and development of Iraqi cuisine over the centuries, from ancient Mesopotamia to the present. Menus, glossary, HC, 584pp, 300 b/w and color illus. Equinox Publishing
The Fruit, Herbs,
& Vegetables of Italy (1614) - $24.00
Giacomo Castelvetro, edited & translated by Gillian Riley. A new edition of a classic of early 17th-century food writing. This book was written by the Italian refugee, educator, and humanist Castelvetro, who had been saved from the Inquisition in Venice by the British Ambassador in 1611. The book takes us through the year, lovingly describing fruit and vegetables as they come into season, with elegant ways of preparing them. Practical instructions are interspersed with tender vignettes of his life. PB, 176pp. Prospect Books
Sir Hugh Plat: the
search for useful knowledge - $60.00
Malcolm Thick. Considers the life and works of Sir Hugh Plat, author, alchemist, speculator and inventor. Additional fields Plat worked in include cookery & sugar work, cosmetics, gardening, and many more. HC, 320pp, full bibliog., references & documentary appendices. Prospect Books
Costume
Medieval Garments
Reconstructed: Norse Clothing Patterns - $30
Else Ostergard, Anna Norgard & Lilli Fransen. This volume begins with a short introduction to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland. It then features chapters on technique – production of the thread, dyeing, weaving techniques, cutting and sewing. Also included are measurements and drawings of garments, hoods, and stockings, with sewing instructions. A practical guide to making your own medieval Norse garment. HC, 200pp, illus. Aarhus University Press.
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